Tag Archives: side-dish

It’s the very beginning of June and it already feels like the familiar hot and humid summer in DC. The air is thick and still and despite the a/c cranked up to its maximum capacity, the house never seems to feel cool during the day. We have a lot of sky lights in the house and although I love...

Have you seen any of Rotam Ottolenghi’s cookbooks? He is an Israeli chef based in London who has written several books (also runs several restaurants and also a take-out deli in some of the swankiest parts of London) but my favorite are the two vegetarian cookbooks called Plenty and Plenty more. What I really love about his style of...

This dish draws inspiration from a traditional Middle-eastern Eggplant and Chickpea stew but I have added a few of my own twists to it. I make this stew or a variation of it quite often. For one, I love eggplant and my husband loves chickpeas so this is one stew that works for both of us. Also, it is...

Produce sold in supermarkets is often transported across great distances and the result is that the produce gets stale and loses a lot of taste and nutritional value. Even if the produce actually looks good, it may not be fresh. Large scale producers (often multinational are involved here) over-fertilize, use GMO seeds and process their produce for it to...

It’s been quite a while since I have posted a new recipe. Somehow life has been busier than normal – for one I have been working hard trying to resurrect my backyard after this supremely harsh winter (I have lost quite a few trees and other perennials and the worst of them has been the loss of a fig...